Metallic cross-tie



(No Model.)

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No. 517,915. Patented Apr. 10, 1894'.`

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Nrrnn STATES ALBERT G. BUDINGTO, OF AUSTIN, TEXAS.

METALLIC CROSS-TIE.

SPCIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 517,915, dated April 10, 1894.

Application filed .Tune 6, 1893. Serial No. 476,764. (No model.)

tallic Cross-Tie, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in metallic cross-ties.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of metallic crossties, and to provideasimple and inexpensive one which will possess the necessary elastic` ity and in which there will be no greater vibration than the ordinary wooden crossltie.

A further object of the invention is to provise a metallic cross-tie which will not require bolts or nuts and which may readily be handled, and which will be capable of being placed beneath and removed from rails with the same facility as the ordinary wooden tie.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings: Figure l is a perspective View of a metallic cross-tie constructed in accordance with this invention Fig. 2 is alon-V gitudinal sectional view of' the same. Fig. 3 isatransverse sectional view. Fig.4 is a detail perspective view of one of the rail chairs. Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view yshowing the clips and illustrating the manner of securing the brace and a rail to the cross-tie.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures ofthe drawings.

l designates a crosstie constructed of rolled met-al and consisting of a bottom plate 2, integral vertical sides 3, and upper and lower horizontal flanges 4 and 5, disposed longitudinally of the tie and extending laterally therefrom and forming recesses at the sides of the tie, whereby t-he latter will be securely anchored in the roadbed. The tie has a longitudinal opening 6, in which are arranged rail chairs 7, 8 and 9, supporting rails 10, 1l and 12, which are secured upon the upper flanges 4 of the cross-tie by clips 13. Each rail chair consists of abottom plate 14, acentral vertical web 15, and atop plate 16, which tions.

vis provided at opposite sides with vertical flanges 17, forming between them a recess for the reception of the bottom flanges of a rail. In the accom panying drawings the rail chair is shown applied to rails in dierent posiv tion 19, and inclined legs 20. The longitudinal body-portion is adapted to engage the rail at the top of the web in the angle formed -by the latter and the head of the rail; and

the lower ends of the inclined legs are bifurcated and receive Shanks 21, of clips 22. The

clips 22 consist of a head 23, and a shank 21,

which is passed upward through the adjacent Y topfiange of' the tie and is arranged in the bifurcation of' one of the legs 20, and is secured by being bent over upon or upset against the same. The clip 13 consists of a bar which extends beneath the top iange of the tie and prongs or shanks extending upward from the ends of the bar, passing through the tie-flange and being bent against the bottom flanges of the rail.`

lThe chair may, Without departing from the invention, be modified to adapt it to different kinds of rails; and the rail 11 is a switchrail which is arranged at an angle to the main rail 10, and the chair 8 is shaped to conform to the configuration of the tie and the switchrail and has its ends beveled. At curves and other places where guard-rails are employed, the flange at the inner side of the chair is reduced to form a lug 24, and the adjacent rail 25 is provided with a recess 26, to receive the lug and to enable its bottom flange to be arranged contiguous to the bottom flange of the rail 12. It will' be seen that the cross-tie is simple and comparatively inexpensive in conminor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

l. The combination with rails, of a hollow cross-tie having parallel vertical sides pro- IOO vided with fiat upper faces supporting the rails, and the rail chairs arranged within the cross-tie and fitting snugly between the sides thereof, and each composed of a bottom flange resting upon the bottom of the cross-tie,a web and a top portion 16 arranged flush with the upper faces of the sides of the cross-tie and provided with integral parallel upward extending flanges arranged transversely of the cross-tie and projecting above the upper faces of the chair and the sides of the crosstie and receiving the rails between them and embracing the same, substantially as described. t

2. The combination of a hollow cross-tie, a chair arranged within the cross-tie and provided with side flanges extending upward, a rail mounted on the cross-tie and arranged between the upwardly-extending side fianges of the chair, and clips composed of bars arranged on the lower faces of the top anges of the tie and provided at their ends with upwardly-extending prongs passing through the tie and engaging the bottom flanges of the rails, substantially as described.

thereof and inclined legs having their lower ends bifurcated and arranged on the crosstie, and clips consisting of heads and Shanks passing through the cross-tie and arranged in the bifurcations of the legs and bent over upon the latter, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a cross-tie, a rail chair arranged within the tie and comprising a bottom plate, a web and a top plate having upwardly-extending flanges, a rail mounted on the cross-tie and arranged between the upwardly-extending anges of the chair, clips 13 having prongs extending upward through the tie and engaging the rail, an inclined brace having a longitudinal body to engage the rail beneath the head and provided with depending bifurcated legs, and clips 22 consisting of heads and Shanks passing through the cross "tie and arranged in the bifurcation of the legsand bent over upon the latter, substantially as described.

In testimony that l claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto axed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT G. BUDINGTON.

Witnesses:

R. W. BUDINGTON, MINos LONG, J r. 

